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Taurus Magnified

We need to reduce. We just have too much stuff. Ever since be catalogued all his DVDs (he's still working on the CDs) it got me thinking about how many possessions we actually own. My culprit is books; be loves movies and music. We also have so much food it's like a corner store in our kitchen. I organized our food tonight after unpacking the infamous box and realized we have, amongst many other things:

Dried fruit: apricots, golden raisins, regular raisins, mangoes, preserved plums, prunes, dates, date pieces, strawberry-flavored Craisins

Salty snacks: tortilla chips, salsa Doritos, black pepper jack Doritos, Terra Chips, some sort of seaweed snack, Chex mix, BBQ pita puffs, BBQ soybeans, 2 bags hot wasabi peas, peanuts, cashews, mixed nuts, hot mix and 6 kinds of crackers

Cookies: 3 kinds of Hawaiian shortbread, Newman's alphabet, vanilla wafers, homebaked, a tin of Belgian chocolate, 2 boxes Thin Mints, 2 boxes Samoas

Rice: white long grain, Thai jasmine, sushi, basmati, red jasmine, red Bhutanese, Wild Blend

Dried Lentils: red, black, French green, chickpeas, black-eyed peas

Chocolate: dark, milk and white blocks; white chips, semi-sweet chips, 4 kinds of hot chocolate, 2 boxes candy, countless mini candy bars, a 75% bar

This isn't even counting all the produce, condiments in the refrigerator or tea and coffee! Nor the pasta, tomato sauce, canned beans, dried mushrooms, taco shells, ice cream cones and crap in the freezer! Not the mention all the various appliances, some useful and some not as useful, in cabinets or on the counter! I also have every pot and pan, utensil and tool needed. Plus, we also have 2 shelves of cookbooks ...

It's totally because we both have Taurus in our astrological charts. be has Taurus sun and i have Taurus rising. This means we both love food, indulgence and obtaining "stuff." Maybe it's also due to not having much growing up - we're overdoing it now as adults. Good side: we have enough ingredients to make multiple gourmet meals from many different cuisines. Bad side: we never know what to cook. We're so dumb. We need to stop eating out and reduce all this food.

And speaking of eating out, tonight we had dinner with O, Yumi, Doey and Vix at Buddha Bodai in Chinatown. We originally wanted to eat at Vegetarian Dim Sum House but the wait was about an hour. Buddha Bodai is really good, but overall i like VDSH better. One plus for BB, however, is that they offer 3 kinds of jook (rice porridge) and "vegetarian snail," which is really deep fried mushrooms - very tasty and addictive. Afterwards we had drinks at Tea & Tea (it was too cold for Chinatown Ice Cream Factory), where O immensely disliked his green barley drink. be tried his lychee with nata de coco HOT and it was actually really good! They add a slice of lemon to it, which adds a nice flavor.

Seriously though, after tomorrow i'm not eating out anymore. Okay, really only once a week. I'm now on a reduction rampage. MK will be so proud.

posted by beXn @ 3:50 AM